Evidence for the integrity of the Discovery Institute

Do you have any actual evidence of a lab-leak? I mean as in sequence evidence that SARS-Cov2 was present inside the WIV before the outbreak of the pandemic? No.

Testimony from someone who worked there that they had it? No.

Blood-tests from workers prior to the pandemic that shows they had antibodies against SARS-Cov2 spike or nucleoprotein already? No.

Do you have any evidence that workers from the WIV were the source of superspreader events, or carrying hosts prior to the outbreak of the pandemic? No.

You have none of this.

What you have instead is the lack of total, abiding, unfettered collaboration from everyone all the time, and you use this fact to explain away why you have no actual evidence that the pandemic began with a lab-leak. You are essentially positing some sort of conspiracy as the reason why you have no actual evidence of a lab-leak.

That is the very essence of a conspiracy theory. The fact that you have no actual evidence is sort of “accounted for” by positing the idea that you totally could have lots of evidence if just everyone wasn’t keeping secrets and lying to us.

But that means your “hypothesis” is literally based on the conjunction of you having

  1. No evidence
    and
  2. The ASSUMPTION that the reason people don’t stand around going goatse in your general direction on the off chance you’d want to inspect deeper is because they’re hiding coronaviruses inside it.

No evidence and an assumption of lying and secrets to explain why you have no evidence (thus admitting that you have no evidence).

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